Word: karachi
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...interview Bhutto gave to Reuter last Saturday, Yousef was busy scheming to assassinate her in the fall of 1993, seven months after the U.S. attack and shortly before she was elected Prime Minister. Armed with explosives, she recounted, he headed for her high-walled oceanside estate in Karachi intent on murder. But one of the devices detonated prematurely, injuring Yousef. Authorities did not catch up with him again until they nabbed him on Feb. 7 in Islamabad...
...independently confirmed, heightened the popular perception that Pakistan is a growing haven for terrorists and criminals. The arrests of more alleged conspirators confirmed that the terrorist trail continues to span the breadth of the country, from the fundamentalist cells of Peshawar to the violence-riddled commercial capital of Karachi, where the U.S. State Department last week ordered the evacuation of all school-age children of American officials. U.S. agents are still hunting for Mir Aimal Kansi, wanted for the murders of two CIA officers in Langley, Virginia, two years ago. He is believed to be hiding in Baluchistan, another center...
...even a determined Hillary Clinton will find it hard to turn attention away from Pakistan's perils. She arrives little more than two weeks after three U.S. consulate workers were ambushed in Karachi and two of them slain. Some Pakistani officials theorize that the killings could have been meant as a warning against her trip. Pakistani authorities no doubt hope the latest arrests will help calm the atmosphere, even though there is no connection so far between Yousef's associates and the murders. To improve security, in the past week hundreds of militants have been detained...
...killings of the consular workers were the first in recent memory that both involved foreigners in Karachi and were not connected directly with crime or sectarian strife. That led some diplomats in Karachi to speculate that the attackers were Islamic militants angry at Pakistan's extradition to the U.S. in February of Ramsi Yousef, suspected mastermind of New York City's 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Others suggest it may have been a deliberate attack on CIA employee Durell, pointing out that only he was directly fired upon. Van Landingham died because she was sitting beside Durell and came...
...sent security experts and FBI agents to Karachi to gather evidence and offered a $2 million reward for help in finding the killers, unlikely as that is. "It could be anybody," says a U.S. intelligence official in Washington. The only certainty is that the Americans made very easy targets. Unlike U.S.-owned vehicles in other trouble spots around the globe, the van did not have armor plating or bulletproof glass, it appeared to follow the same route every morning, and the driver was not trained in ambush-escape techniques. "These folks didn't need to die like this," says Larry...